Marc Silver
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Three master chefs created a special candy 'to raise awareness on food waste and hunger' and served it at Davos, where the intellectual elite meet to ponder the world's problems.
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One man at Malawi's Zomba Prison said that music is a form of freedom for the inmates, transporting them to a better place.
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Keyon Harrold, the trumpet star and one of the composers, talks about the art of creating a song with a conscience.
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body Team 12, a 13-minute documentary, has its TV premiere on HBO. The main character is Garmai Sumo, a 29-year-old nurse (and mom) who risked her life to collect the bodies of Ebola victims.
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Why are Nigerians making a splash in Hollywood? We ask a star of the new NBC series Shades of Blue.
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And that led us to interview a chicken expert who shared some exciting news about chickens in the developing world.
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A version of the word sustainable appears at least 75 times in the sustainable development goals the U.N. will endorse this weekend. We asked some analysts to tell us what, exactly, it means.
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NPR's Marc Silver lost his mother-in-law in 2005. But she remains a presence at family meals this Jewish holiday season, through his dogged trial-and-error attempts to re-create her favorite treats.
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The death of an American teacher raises questions about the risks of heading off alone as a trekker or a volunteer. We talked with two experts about lessons to draw from the tragedy.
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In some countries, parents don't send daughters to school. The obstacle can be tuition fees of, say, $300 a year. But a coal miner's daughter has found a way to bring 1.4 million girls to class.